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Caitlyn Hartigan

Mitolife Radio

Alopecia Life 

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The idea that nobody is iron deficient and everyone is iron dysregulated has gone mainstream the past couple of years. The theory is that even though your ferritin level is single digits you have plenty of iron, its just stored deep in your tissues where blood tests don't measure. What if there is another side to the story? Caitlyn Hartigan, founder of the Iron Protocol, joins us again to talk about iron deficiency and all of the myths surrounding it. She often says that iron overload experts do not understand iron deficiency. We talk about the iron recycling system, iron's cofactors, iron infusions, vitamin D, how ferritin can be an antioxidant, and the relationship between iron and pathogens. Caitlyn's website: https://theironprotocol.com/ The Iron Protocol FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810 My website: www.matt-blackburn.com Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co Music by George Henner https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com/

The idea that nobody is iron deficient and everyone is iron dysregulated has gone mainstream the past couple of years. The theory is that even though your ferritin level is single digits you have plenty of iron, its just stored deep in your tissues where blood tests don't measure. What if there is another side to the story? Caitlyn Hartigan, founder of the Iron Protocol, joins us again to talk about iron deficiency and all of the myths surrounding it. She often says that iron overload experts do not understand iron deficiency. We talk about the iron recycling system, iron's cofactors, iron infusions, vitamin D, how ferritin can be an antioxidant, and the relationship between iron and pathogens. Caitlyn's website: <a href="https://theironprotocol.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theironprotocol.com/</a> The Iron Protocol FB group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810</a> My website: <a href="https://www.matt-blackburn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.matt-blackburn.com</a> Mitolife products: <a href="https://www.mitolife.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mitolife.co</a> Music by George Henner <a href="https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com/</a>

You Can't Recycle Iron if There's No Iron to Recycle with Caitlyn Hartigan

Welcome to Alopecia Life and part 2 of the Iron Protocol interview with Caitlyn Hartigan. Many of you have already gone over to the FB page to read the protocols, check your symptoms, understand what lab work to ask for, and how to read that lab work. Others have started looking at the information, and even more have started to wonder what ferritin has to do with their fatigue and anxiety. Thank you for hanging tight as we waited to release this next episode. At the end of the last one, Caitlyn was telling us about the myriad of symptoms that come with an iron deficiency, and she continues with that right here.Thanks again for listening to the 2nd part of the series on Iron, and for asking questions and looking for answers. As many of us do, including myself, sometimes we wait until a crash happens to spur us into action. Keep this information and resource in your back pocket for future reference for yourself, a friend, or a family member. You never know when you might need it. Caitlyn and I discussed future episodes covering a specific topic around iron, and we would love to hear from you about what that might look like. Come on over to the FB Alopecia Life group or @alopecialifecoach on Instagram to ask any questions and share your iron story. The links to find out more are here in the show notes. https://theironprotocol.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/Support the showAlopecia Life provides free resources for school and home education, including a growing list of alopecia books, education videos on YouTube, links to support groups within the US, UK, Canada and more. You will also find access to Head-On, Stories of Alopecia, the Alopecia 101 free course, paid Alopecia Roadmap course for parents of children living with alopecia, and personalized coaching. Together, we can make a difference. To find out more, https://www.alopecialife.com/

Welcome to Alopecia Life and part 2 of the Iron Protocol interview with Caitlyn Hartigan. Many of you have already gone over to the FB page to read the protocols, check your symptoms, understand what lab work to ask for, and how to read that lab work. Others have started looking at the information, and even more have started to wonder what ferritin has to do with their fatigue and anxiety. Thank you for hanging tight as we waited to release this next episode. At the end of the last one, Caitlyn was telling us about the myriad of symptoms that come with an iron deficiency, and she continues with that right here. Thanks again for listening to the 2nd part of the series on Iron, and for asking questions and looking for answers. As many of us do, including myself, sometimes we wait until a crash happens to spur us into action. Keep this information and resource in your back pocket for future reference for yourself, a friend, or a family member. You never know when you might need it. Caitlyn and I discussed future episodes covering a specific topic around iron, and we would love to hear from you about what that might look like. Come on over to the FB Alopecia Life group or @alopecialifecoach on Instagram to ask any questions and share your iron story. The links to find out more are here in the show notes.  <a href="https://theironprotocol.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theironprotocol.com/</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/</a><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeanngraham" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>Alopecia Life provides free resources for school and home education, including a growing list of alopecia books, education videos on YouTube, links to support groups within the US, UK, Canada and more. You will also find access to Head-On, Stories of Alopecia, the Alopecia 101 free course, paid Alopecia Roadmap course for parents of children living with alopecia, and personalized coaching. Together, we can make a difference. To find out more, <a href="https://www.alopecialife.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.alopecialife.com/</a>

S4E9 The Iron Protocol Part 2, with  Caitlyn Hartigan

Welcome to this 2 part series of Alopecia Life around the topic of iron deficiency. A couple years ago, living with "low iron" caught up with me. I found myself unable to do simple tasks like walk my dog, go up a flight of stairs without feeling like my heart was beating out of my chest, and I had an incessant cough that wouldn't go away. I soon discovered that my Iron had dipped to an alarmingly low level, but there was more to the story than I realized. I didn't fit the puzzle pieces together until April of this year when my symptoms resurfaced, with additional ones that were perplexing. I had seen multiple general health care providers and a hematologist, and we still hadn't identified what the cause was. I'd been given a standard suggestion on how to take iron, every other day with some orange juice. It just wasn't cutting it. I soon found the Iron Protocol (for Iron Deficiency with or without anemia) on Facebook, and it was a total lightbulb moment. I had always wondered why I had low iron, and also why it didn't seem to ever bother my doctors over the years. I also wondered if it was deficient because I had two autoimmune conditions? Was it a factor in these conditions? I'm pleased to have Caitlyn Hartigan here to share what the Iron Protocol is, what ferritin is, how to identify some of the signs of low ferritin, how iron moves through our body, and quite a bit more. We've broken it down into two separate episodes because it's a lot of information, and we wanted to have time for questions that may have come up between episodes.This is a reminder that neither me or Caitlyn are medical professionals. This podcast is for informational purposes only. Let's welcome Caitlyn Hartigan to Alopecia Life.Thank you for listening to this first episode talking about iron and ferritin. After our interview, I jumped on the support pages I run and am part of and asked questions of the group members living with alopecia or who have a child with alopecia. For the past decade I've heard a large percentage of folks living with alopecia areata saying they had low iron. So it didn't surprise me that the poll revealed over 42% mentioned they have "low iron", and that a good portion of the group didn't know what ferritin is, or even that some had high iron. I hope those of you with iron and ferritin issues have your wheels turning, know what questions to ask of your healthcare providers, and are feeling hopeful. To find out more about Caitlyn and to check out the protocols on Facebook, the website, or to follow on Instagram, check out the links provided here in the show notes. https://theironprotocol.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/Support the showAlopecia Life provides free resources for school and home education, including a growing list of alopecia books, education videos on YouTube, links to support groups within the US, UK, Canada and more. You will also find access to Head-On, Stories of Alopecia, the Alopecia 101 free course, paid Alopecia Roadmap course for parents of children living with alopecia, and personalized coaching. Together, we can make a difference. To find out more, https://www.alopecialife.com/

Welcome to this 2 part series of Alopecia Life around the topic of iron deficiency. A couple years ago, living with "low iron" caught up with me. I found myself unable to do simple tasks like walk my dog, go up a flight of stairs without feeling like my heart was beating out of my chest, and I had an incessant cough that wouldn't go away. I soon discovered that my Iron had dipped to an alarmingly low level, but there was more to the story than I realized. I didn't fit the puzzle pieces together until April of this year when my symptoms resurfaced, with additional ones that were perplexing.  I had seen multiple general health care providers and a hematologist, and we still hadn't identified what the cause was. I'd been given a standard suggestion on how to take iron, every other day with some orange juice. It just wasn't cutting it. I soon found the Iron Protocol (for Iron Deficiency with or without anemia) on Facebook, and it was a total lightbulb moment. I had always wondered why I had low iron, and also why it didn't seem to ever bother my doctors over the years. I also wondered if it was deficient because I had two autoimmune conditions? Was it a factor in these conditions?  I'm pleased to have Caitlyn Hartigan here to share what the Iron Protocol is, what ferritin is, how to identify some of the signs of low ferritin, how iron moves through our body, and quite a bit more. We've broken it down into two separate episodes because it's a lot of information, and we wanted to have time for questions that may have come up between episodes. This is a reminder that neither me or Caitlyn are medical professionals. This podcast is for informational purposes only. Let's welcome Caitlyn Hartigan to Alopecia Life. Thank you for listening to this first episode talking about iron and ferritin. After our interview, I jumped on the support pages I run and am part of and asked questions of the group members living with alopecia or who have a child with alopecia. For the past decade I've heard a large percentage of folks living with alopecia areata saying they had low iron. So it didn't surprise me that the poll revealed over 42% mentioned they have "low iron", and that a good portion of the group didn't know what ferritin is, or even that some had high iron. I hope those of you with iron and ferritin issues have your wheels turning, know what questions to ask of your healthcare providers, and are feeling hopeful.  To find out more about Caitlyn and to check out the protocols on Facebook, the website, or to follow on Instagram, check out the links provided here in the show notes.  <a href="https://theironprotocol.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://theironprotocol.com/</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/3412143085483810</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/theironprotocol/</a><a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/deeanngraham" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support the show</a>Alopecia Life provides free resources for school and home education, including a growing list of alopecia books, education videos on YouTube, links to support groups within the US, UK, Canada and more. You will also find access to Head-On, Stories of Alopecia, the Alopecia 101 free course, paid Alopecia Roadmap course for parents of children living with alopecia, and personalized coaching. Together, we can make a difference. To find out more, <a href="https://www.alopecialife.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.alopecialife.com/</a>

S4E8 The Iron Protocol Part 1, with Caitlyn Hartigan

Is anemia and iron deficiency the same thing? Can you have a normal hemoglobin level and be iron deficient? Does iron deficiency actually exist or does everyone have iron recycling issues? Is ferritin an accurate marker to tell if you're deficient? How do we interpret the lab markers serum iron, ferritin and transferrin? Which nutrients and supplements interfere and enhance heme and non-heme iron absorption? What are the cofactors for iron? Can you have the gene mutation for hereditary hemochromatosis and still be iron deficient? Caitlyn Hartigan, creator of The Iron Protocol, is an iron deficiency expert. In this episode she talks about iron deficiency and why it is a real problem that often requires supplementation or transfusions. She shares her journey of healing from iron deficiency, factors that cause iron deficiency in both men and women, and why anemia and iron deficiency are two different things.  Caitlyn's website: www.theironprotocol.com The Iron Protocol FB group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/theironprotocol My website: www.matt-blackburn.com Mitolife products: www.mitolife.co Music by George Henner https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com 

Is anemia and iron deficiency the same thing? Can you have a normal hemoglobin level and be iron deficient? Does iron deficiency actually exist or does everyone have iron recycling issues? Is ferritin an accurate marker to tell if you're deficient? How do we interpret the lab markers serum iron, ferritin and transferrin? Which nutrients and supplements interfere and enhance heme and non-heme iron absorption? What are the cofactors for iron? Can you have the gene mutation for hereditary hemochromatosis and still be iron deficient? Caitlyn Hartigan, creator of The Iron Protocol, is an iron deficiency expert. In this episode she talks about iron deficiency and why it is a real problem that often requires supplementation or transfusions. She shares her journey of healing from iron deficiency, factors that cause iron deficiency in both men and women, and why anemia and iron deficiency are two different things.  Caitlyn's website: <a href="http://www.theironprotocol.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.theironprotocol.com</a> The Iron Protocol FB group: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/theironprotocol" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/theironprotocol</a> My website: <a href="http://www.matt-blackburn.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.matt-blackburn.com</a> Mitolife products: <a href="http://www.mitolife.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.mitolife.co</a> Music by George Henner <a href="https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://georgehenner.bandcamp.com</a>